Oral Session #26: Invertebrate Herbivore - Plant Interactions.

Presiding: R. Medina, University of Maryland.
Monday, August 7, 2000
8:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Cottonwood Room IV - Sports Event Center

8:00 AM	Does lack of herbivory and disease explain the success of an alien plant species: Experimental tests. SIEMANN, E. , W.E. ROGERS
8:15 AM	Insect herbivory alters competitive interactions in meadows in the French Alps. CORCKET, E. , R.M. CALLAWAY, R. MICHALET
8:30 AM	Herbivore mediated apparent competition between two host plants in a New England salt marsh. RAND, T.A.
8:45 AM	Does aphid herbivory on Senecio multilobatus (Asteraceae) affect seed maturity and pollinator visitation? PETRILLO, H.A. , A.E.M. WALTZ, W.W. COVINGTON
9:00 AM	Holly-leafminers on two continents: What makes an outbreak species? EBER, S. , H.P. SMITH, R.K. DIDHAM and H.V. CORNELL
9:15 AM	The roles of herbivory and other environmental factors on a flower color polymorphism. STRAUSS, S.Y
9:30 AM	Plant ontogeny affects community structure and biodiversity. WHITHAM, T.G. , B.M. POTTS, R. LAWRENCE and M.L. KEARSLEY, A. MARTIN WALTZ, P.R. MINCHIN
9:45 AM	The invasion of the solanaceous fruit fly on the island of Maui: An example of an invasion cascade. PECK, S.L.
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Induced versus constitutive ethanol tolerance in larvae of Drosophila melanogaster . FRY, J.D. , M. GRIGGS
10:30 AM	Scared stable: Host behavioral response and biological control. ADLER, F.R.
10:45 AM	Preference and performance of a generalist herbivore on Q. agrifolia and Q. engelmannii seedlings from a southern California oak woodland. DUNNING, C.E. , T.D. PAINE, R.A. REDAK
11:00 AM	Impacts of invading European earthworms on understory plant communities in previously worm-free hardwood forests of Minnesota. HALE, C.M. , L.E. FRELICH, P.B. REICH
11:15 AM	Ecosystem engineering by leaftying caterpillars LILL, J.T. , R.J. MARQUIS
11:30 AM	Herbivory of vine maple,Acer circinatum(Pursh) in an old-growth Douglas-fir/western hemlock forest. BRAUN, D.M. , B. RUNCHENG, D.C. SHAW and M. VANSCOY
11:45 AM	Gregarious feeding by a specialist insect herbivore increases host plant susceptibility. FORDYCE, J.
12:00 PM	Is timing everything? The temporal interation between an insect and its host plants. HELLMANN, J.J.